Business Process Management (BPM)

Bluestar PLM offers a scalable module-based PLM solution for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management, delivering different levels of integration with CAD, PLM and ERP, fitting your unique business needs. Start simple by CAD/PDM + ERP Connectors, explore a single business system by having CAD + PLM + ERP with Bluestar PLM, or move your business towards enterprise product configuration by choosing the Product Configuration Module.

Although most manufacturers do have formal procedures for their core business processes, they often struggle to enforce them in practice and therefore experience some of the same issues as companies without formalized procedures. Without a complete overview of ongoing business processes, managing such processes puts a heavy burden on the management team and requires a lot of manual communication between the parties involved, leading to lack of efficiency and errors made in the transfer of data.

Bluestar Business Process Management, a software BPM Microsoft, allows you to automatically delegate tasks and design, deploy and monitor end-to-end business processes. This helps you achieve a high level of efficiency when executing automated and streamlined work procedures, regardless of the level of complexity, scale and scope.

Bluestar Business Process Management Software helps you:

  • Enforce best-practice and formal procedures for your core business processes across engineering and operations.
  • Monitor business processes in real-time: All CAD, PLM and ERP product data and related processes exist in D365/AX, so you can trace the progress in real-time.
  • Execute workflow-driven projects: Workflows trace product designs, requirements, and documentation back and forth between the customer and the engineering team. The entire project structure is contained in one place – D365/AX – from creation to release.
  • Work in parallel by allowing engineers to continue designing products while procurement starts purchasing long lead time items.
BluestarPLM Integrations Business Process Management e1643621538360

Execute and monitor end-to-end processes between engineering and the supply chain inside D365/AX.

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Streamlining best-practice business processes

  • Enables users to streamline and standardize their corporate business processes by defining best practices for the different activities within your company.
  • Model, deploy, and monitor graphical workflows inside Microsoft Dynamics 365/AX for increased efficiency and conformity in the business processes.

Automated workflows shorten lead times and increase operational efficiency.

Key Features of Microsoft Business Process Management

Graphical workflow monitoring and automation

Graphical workflows provide an overview of the procedures they document and color-coded tasks provide a real-time overview of the progress made. Generate customizable reports and charts based on workflow statistics and parameters.

Audit trail

Reveals which of your existing designs that use items you have inserted into the CAD model you are currently designing. 

Microsoft Dynamics 365F&O/AX integration

Bluestar Designer displays the entire BOM structure and each line from top to bottom level, as well as revision count, quantities, approval status and more.

Drag and drop workflow design

Gives you an overview of all parts that have similar geometric properties and bounding box with any item selected in CAD. 

AX Alerts integration

Initiate a structured search for items, according to given product classes. Narrows down a search, making it easy to reuse certain structures and assemblies from your existing designs.

Logic gates

Stage gates lets users decide which of several tasks in a workflow must be completed to execute the process depending on whether or not certain conditions are met.

Engineering change management

Revise and manage all your items and related activities so you will always know which is the latest version. With revision you can also backtrack to find out how and when errors or mistakes happened during engineering change processes.

Task rules

Existing workflows can be saved as best practice templates for reuse in repetitive business processes. This ensures corporate conformance and performance every time.

Your Benefits with Business Process Management Module

Increased Operational efficiency

Automated best practice workflows shorten cycle times and information routings.

Tighten enterprise-wide collaboration

Workflows are deployed in enterprise-wide context enabling the entire organization to collaborate more efficiently across departments and locations.

Enforce procedural compliance

Best practice workflows are reused as templates in repetitive business processes ensuring compliance with official procedures

Documented activities

Automatically register all workflow activities for a full audit trail.

Monitor workflows in real time

Color-coding indicates the current status of workflows and workflow tasks providing an instant overview of the progress made.

No coding required

Workflows are quickly designed using intuitive drag & drop functionality making it an easy-to-use tool for non-technical members of staff.

Full visual overview

Customizable reports provide an overview of performance held against deadlines and other parameters.

CAD, PDM and PLM supported by Bluestar PLM

SOLIDWORKS PDM

AUTODESK VAULT

INVENTOR

SOLID EDGE

SOLIDWORKS

EPLAN

ORCAD

PADS

ALTIUM

DRAFTSIGHT

CATIA

CREO

TEAMCENTER

WINDCHILL

SIEMENS NX

AUTOCAD

AUTOCAD PLANT

AUTOCAD ELECTRICAL

BIM

REVIT

And more…

Manage your 2D/3D files, PDM and CAD systems with Bluestar PLM

More key features inside Bluestar BPM

Products

You can make modifications to already started workflows. This provides flexibility in everyday use for improved agility and productivity.

Bluestar PLM utilizes an ‘Information at your fingertips’ approach to an ISO 9000 compliant electronic archive with full revision management of data and documents.

Automatic tasks are performed.

Products

Existing workflows can be saved as best practice templates for reuse in repetitive business processes. This ensures corporate conformance and performance every time.

Once a new workflow has been designed, the workflow logic can be validated by the click of a button. Any illogical coherences in the workflow will be pointed out to the user for revision.

Gives task assignees a list of tasks, that each needs to be done and ticked for the main task to be complete. Ensures users don’t make mistakes and finish all required subtasks.

Sharing

Workflow Automation enables managers to easily generate customizable reports and charts based on workflow statistics and parameters.

Users receive e-mail notifications upon incoming workflow tasks for improved user responsiveness and shorter cycle times. Simply click on a dynamics link in the e-mail to drill down to the task data.

System

Workflows are deployed in enterprise-wide context breaking down silos between departments and locations, enforcing efficient company-wide collaboration with fewer bottlenecks and errors.

Integration

Workflow Automation is fully embedded in MS 365 / AX and therefore works like and with other Microsoft technology.  Workflow Automation offers a familiar user interface and is easy to maintain, develop and upgrade.

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Poul Bak Pedersen
Sales Director EMEA
pbp@bluestarplm.com